Examples
- For Hausdorff spaces, this concept is of course trivial. The only Hausdorff space that has a generic point is the singleton set
- Any integral scheme has a (unique) generic point; in the case of an affine integral scheme (i.e., the prime spectrum of an integral domain) the generic point is the point associated to the prime ideal (0).
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